MONDAY IN HISTORY

Today is Monday, Nov. 27, the 331st day of 2017. There are 34 days left in the year.

Highlight in History:

On Nov. 27, 1967, the Beatles album “Magical Mystery Tour” was released in the United States by Capitol Records.

On this date:

In 1815, the constitution for the Congress Kingdom of Poland was signed by Russian Czar Alexander I, who was also king of Poland.

In 1901, the U.S. Army War College was established in Washington, D.C.

In 1924, Macy’s first Thanksgiving Day parade — billed as a “Christmas Parade” — took place in New York.

In 1942, during World War II, the Vichy French navy scuttled its ships and submarines in Toulon to keep them out of the hands of German troops.

In 1962, the first Boeing 727 was rolled out at the company’s Renton Plant.

In 1978, San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk, a gay-rights activist, were shot to death inside City Hall by former supervisor Dan White. (White served five years for manslaughter; he committed suicide in Oct. 1985.)

In 1989, a bomb blamed on drug traffickers destroyed a Colombian Avianca Boeing 727, killing all 107 people on board and three people on the ground.

Ten years ago: Israeli and Palestinian leaders meeting at a Mideast conference in Annapolis, Maryland, agreed to formally restart peace talks.

Five years ago: The government said consumer confidence reached its highest level in nearly five years, with the help of rising home values, more hiring and lower gas prices.

One year ago: Presidentelect Donald Trump claimed that “millions” had voted illegally in the national election, scoffing at Hillary Clinton’s nearly 2 million edge in the popular vote and returning to his campaign mantra of a rigged race even as he prepared to enter the White House in less than two months.

Today’s Birthdays: Author Gail Sheehy is 80. Footwear designer Manolo Blahnik is 75. Academy-Award-winning director Kathryn Bigelow is 66. TV host Bill Nye is 62. Actor William Fichtner is 61. Caroline Kennedy is 60. Academy Award-winning screenwriter Callie Khouri is 60. Rapper Twista is 45. Actor Jaleel White is 41. Actresssinger Aubrey Peeples is 24.

Thought for Today: “You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.” — James Agee, American author, poet and critic (born this date in 1909, died 1955).